A couple of things spurred me to write this post. First, in a matter of days (and along with colleagues Vicky Long and Despo Kritsotaki), I will be submitting a book proposal on the history of ...

Researching the history of the asylum can be a case of feast and famine, often at the same time. Some asylums left, if not mountains of records, then at least large hills. I mean that literally. An ...

President Donald Trump seeks to fundamentally alter how the United States approaches immigration. Less than a month into office, the White House has effectively shut the border to ...

GRAND CHUTE - Next to the current site of Outagamie County's Brewster Village skilled nursing care center once stood the Outagamie County Asylum for the Chronic Insane. Opened in 1890, the asylum's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hiawatha Asylum at the peak of its operation. On May 8, 1897, South Dakota Senator Richard F. Pettigrew introduced a bill on the ...

Introduction -- Asylum and sanctuary seekers' stories -- Sanctuary's beginnings -- A thousand years of Medieval sanctuary -- From religious sanctuary to secular asylum -- Nineteenth-century sanctuary ...

Between 1848 and 1890, dozens of grand mental asylums were built around the United States under the Kirkbride Plan, designed by Thomas Story Kirkbride. Postcard of the “State Insane Asylum” in Morris ...

The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia looks like the asylum of nightmares and for many, it was. But it started out as a place of compassion whose massive overcrowding lead to desperate ...

Less than a month into office, the White House has effectively shut the border to asylum-seekers—including by cancelling CBPOne appointments for migrants who were supposed to present themselves at ...